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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Pinot vs. Elasticsearch vs. H2GIS vs. Realm

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricSpatial extension of H2A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websiteimpala.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.h2gis.orgrealm.io
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homerealm.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software Foundation and contributorsElasticCNRSRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20132015201020132014
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0.0, September 20238.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyes infobased on H2no inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes infobased on H2yes

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